let's go to tina brown now. i'll give you a choice, the obama conquest, lucky general or master of the game? you want to answer the question? or should we talk about general petraeus? >> how can we resist talking about general petraeus. you know, this whole thing has turned into the most wild steamy complex soap opera that it's just unbelievable. i mean every day a fresh detail, you know, emerges. now we have general allen in the mix. it's almost -- you've got these two women, the brunette bombshell of the high command kelley and the well-toned paula broadwell, with the counterinsurgent smile. it's becoming insane by the minute. i think it's a tragedy to lose petraeus, i do. i think the guy's so stellar and so honorable and so, you know, so important right now. >> it's also a tragedy for all of the families involved. and i wonder would the reporters you have working on "newsweek" and "the daily beast," has anything come across your desk that really questions national security? that really brings this to the fore